#ms ride

Last rest stop! We've made it to the 70 mile mark! We're almost there! Wish us luck for the last 13!

We're at the second to last rest stop. We've gone about 57 miles

Third rest stop. 37 miles done!

I'm doing the MS ride this year.

Thanks :)

The Local Beat section of the WKNC blog has been keeping a low profile recently, in part because I'm a control freak and don't want to tell someone else to do it instead, in part because I've been working on a research paper that's due tomorrow, and in part because I've been moving out of a disgusting 6-person college student house all week. But that doesn't mean we're not giving you more than your daily prescribed dose of local music tonight at 5pm.  In fact, we're ODing on it. At 5:00 Violet Vector & The Lovely Lovelies and Mike Dillon of Gross Ghost will be by to talk about their show next Friday at Slim's. Then at 6:00 Jeff Crawford and Nick Jaeger of The Tomahawks--and every other band you've ever loved--will be playing some songs and chatting about the MS Open Eye Series.  They're playing tomorrow (Saturday 8/1) at the Open Eye Cafe in Carrboro at 8pm (suggested $5 donation to support Zach Terry's MS Ride team). And last but CERTAINLY not least is The Proclivities, who'll be playing The Pour House Music Hall tonight alongside Modern Skirts and Heypenny.  They'll be stopping by right around 7:00. And of course, in between all the chatter will be your favorite local music--and there's so much good new local music right now it's ridiculous. So tune in at 88.1 FM or wknc.org/listen.  No, seriously: do it.

MS doesn't wait. Neither should you! Bike to create a world free of MS.